I shoot JPG out of my PEN-F quite frequently, and enjoy the process. I especially love the settings and “filters” available for out-of-the-camera black and white shooting. It’s just a lot of fun to spend time on only photography enjoying the camera and the process and coming home to images which are cooked to order in the camera. My other Olympus camera is an E-M1 II, which I use for most of my other photography, shooting RAW with all the usual post processing. So also by no means arguing against RAW. Thanks, Joe, for all the great educational content. Been enjoying this channel since well before your switch to M43.
they should have had you shoot it with the 14-42 kit lens. then they could also say photos shot with the boxed kit same as the girls are shooting with.
saw u at the NYC camera show yesterday. i was impressed with the images coming off the OMD. they looked real good on the big screens. the model, tiffany, was the most impressive human female i have ever seen. thanks for giving a black model a shot.
It is always fun and an inspiration to watch your videos. You are bringing back fun and motivation to me to take my camera (Pen-F) and shot. Thank you Joe.
I put a thumb up, but i cannot think this video is kinda of publicity for the pen. I respect Joe because i know photography and he is coherent about he said about the camera. Sorry but that how i feel!
Interesting video! Nice to see what an E-PL9 is capable of in skilled hands. I've been really happy with my E-PL7 since I bought it a couple of years ago. Like you say, these bodies are very capable and pack a lot of functionality! The only thing that really made me want to step up to my E-M5 MkII was the limited physical controls on the body of the E-PL7, but I still use it a lot and the tilting screen on the E-PL7 fits my most common types of shooting better than the flippy screen of the E-M5. In fact, I think some of my favorite photos were captured on the E-PL7. I'm curious about the ISO range you mentioned. My Olympus cameras have a base ISO of 200, and unfortunately the Auto ISO cannot go below 200. I'm guessing the Auto ISO in the E-PL9 has been updated to allow to go down to the Low settings as well. I've seen it mentioned somewhere (maybe a Northrup video?) that this limits the total dynamic range captured? What's your experience of this? I appreciated the shoot planning aspects in the video, definitely something I need to think about more for my shoots!
Always enjoy your videos, as well as learning from them! I use a E-P3 as a 3rd body to my two matching OM-D EM-1 mk1's. Many times I use it for recording my setups and sometimes I use it for a second body. Great video... This was very interesting... I liked the way you incorporated the images from the day while you spoke. Thanks
A great camera but I'm just a little baffled why Olympus decided to stop you being able to use an external mic for video as you could with previous Pen cameras. I really enjoyed this video btw :)
I could tell these were all shot in jpegs with the terrible dynamic range. jk. They look great. I shoot raw and jpeg for backup. Lately I've been posting the jpegs on my instagram/fb and not wasting my time editing the raw files. As long as your not under/over exposing by 10 stops or doing crazy retouches, jpegs are fine. I think some people just over react with the sound of shooting jpegs.
I believe that you are the finest and most motivating TH-cam photographer. By far, I must say. It would take too long to explain why and I am writing just to say thank you. I have learned more in the last 3 - 4 months that I watch your videos than in years listening to other you tubers. So, many many thanks for your tutorials.
You're very welcome Gianluigi Paghi! Thank you so much for the kind words and I am sincerely thrilled that you are finding them helpful. Many more to come!
Mr. Edelman, please tell Olympus to enable 1:1 aspect ratio image capture. Ebay requires 1:1 images and the PEN EPL9 doesnt allow you to capture that size.
Olympus OM-D E-M10 III is the better camera, or should I say the most convenient camera with the 17mm f/1.8 and 12-40mm f/2.8 lenses. The whole kit today will be under $2K. Considering that not everyone need E-M1***, it's enough for in-studio and day-light shooting.
That is a ridiculous statement Owl Polar and just your opinion. The EM10 Mark III is an awesome camera, but that doesn't make it best or right for everyone. The E-PL9 is a great camera with incredible features that is preferred by many. At no point in my video did I say it was best, or that YOU should purchase it.
Those are some really lovely colors!!! I am a Fujifilm user and enjoy their JPEGS, but I am very pleased with the images coming from that Olympus! Thanks for sharing Joe!
I shot RAW + JPEG myself but have quit doing post-processing .. So boring to spend hours adding artificially some blue tones on a sky or what I call « dramatic clouds à la Lightroom » Time best spent shooting outdoors or at events and enjoying life & photography Post-processing is boring and time-wasting
I really like Olympus JPEG, I've been shooting Olympus since 4/3 DSLR until now I use OMD. Just sold my EPL1 a month ago, thinking of getting another Pen later :)
I've always been of the opinion that you have to shoot RAW but things have changed quite a bit since I started shooting digital with my old Nikon D70. I really like Olympus JPEG rendering especially in the PEN-F and sometimes get better or just as good results with JPEG for certain types of photography. There is also something really satisfying about producing a great image right out of camera.
Thank you Scott Williams Photography! The E-PL9 is indeed "cracking" - especially with that denim blue color. Of course some folks will think that it is barmy to shoot with such a small camera - but it is great to know that I can take that camera out and do big camera shots - when I don't want to carry the big cameras! Cheers!
Most of the time I shoot RAW+JPEG on my Olympus cameras and lately I am working only with the JPEGs cause them are coming great. On the past weeks I were on a 20 days vacations with my wife thru Mexico and took with me the PEN-F with some lenses. Most of the time I was shooting Aperture Priority and the Exposure Compesation wheel made my life so easy. I shoot mostly on JPEG only and so happy with the results. For post processing I am using Snapseed, its an amazing app and let you create presets. Your videos are amazing, keep it up as always!
Different than a TOG chat and appreciated. A good quick review of an overlooked camera, and one that can really help a lot of people, if they get past all the marketing fluff stating they need more and bigger and badder devices. Nice to see you limit and confine to JPG and Auto-ISO and such too. Not even sure you needed to even use the 12-100... and the best to both of the Instagrammers.
I have 4 Olympus cameras. I brought my first E-PL2 because having the option of an EVF (of cause I brought the EVF also). EVF is important to me and I ask Olympus what they think to make a camera without viewfinder or an option for an add on one?
The Olympus Jpegs are very nice. I shoot RAW to one card and jpeg to the other so I can transfer to my phone easily etc.. I would have no problem givin my clients the jpegs if I needed to do so.
I was considering to buy an E-PL9 as a travel camera, I like it a lot, but in the end I bought a Panasonic Lumix GX850 at half the price of the Olympus in Amazon Spain. To be fair I still think the E-PL9 is a superior camera (not by much) but for the price the Panasonic was a no brainer. Of course it's not my main camera, I own a G7 that gives me more flexibility and better ergonomics and controls. One question about your assignment, at first glance the lens/camera combinations that you use feels a little unbalance, did you noticed it or limited you in any way?
Great video, Joe. I am a big fan of you and watch every video you post here. Frankly speaking, because of your videos I have been highly motivated to do my best in my works. Love 💕 you from 🇮🇳 India.
What I like most in this video and in Joe, is that he is willing to break the myths about the sensor size and straight talks about the things that matters, the photographer skills to understand the light, subject and theme, and then understand the camera features. The sensor size doesn't matter at all compared what does example MySets (Custom Set now) and camera having interchangeable lenses so one can build a different kind setups to match the need, like in this case use 12-100mm f/4 with a E-PL9! Personally I have one drawback that Olympus made with E-PL8 and newer, they removed the AP2 (accessory port 2) from hotshoe so one can't anymore attach a external viewfinder like VF-4. I use even today every day a E-P5 with 14-42EZ with VF-2 (because it is round and smaller compared to VF-4) that hangs from my belt. Every time I need to take a photo, I can just lift the camera from the belt, turn it On and even adjust its focal length and shoot, all with one hand. Thanks to two dials, VF-2 and Electronic Zoom. And that makes me now consider, that do I buy in three days time a PEN-F or E-M1 II. My E-M1 mechanical shutter is dying in cold weather (gets stuck, and only good thump on it will release it) and I need that weather sealing sometimes and 60 FPS would really come handy. But then again PEN-F would likely be more often useful with its color creator dial (as I like to shoot JPEG+raw as I mostly only need to use JPEG and not touch raw almost ever), but I am so teared up for which one to get first now. I just acquired the original E-M5, and I just love that camera. It was instant buy just for the fun and as an "collector item" as that is the first OM-D that started the m4/3 system raise in the image quality to top dogs. PEN-F is as well a collectors item, but E-M1 is more of a workhorse, but I so love doing black and white and PEN-F is so calling me thats why. It would cost just 999€ with the 25mm f/1.8 lens anyways... This is so terrible, Olympus creates so many amazing bodies and lenses that it is difficult not to go wrong with any of them! I want to see Joe's experience with the PEN-F in B/W mode on lifestyle photographs!
Hi Joe, long time no hear. Fabtabulous approach and you did all the right things. I shot my E-PM2 as my main camera for nearly two years, and added an EVF-2 viewfinder only in the later months. The PEN are very full featured. Love what you did with the visual essay as well
On my recent family trip to Disney I left my Leica M240 and 5D IV at home and took the Panasonic G9 with the pana-leica 12-60. I shot everything on jpeg except a few landscape shots I wanted to edit later. The new jpeg engine on the G9 is so good I can finally shoot jpeg and save time in front of the pc. It even beats my all time fav jpeg engine, the Fuji.
And think about this, Olympus has had that top JPEG engine for a decade now... Panasonic only has got close to it with G9! So many Canon, Nikon and Pentax users has been hardcore raw shooters only because their JPEG engines are really trash compared what Olympus has been doing. That is one of the reasons why I chose Olympus over Fuji and Panasonic when I switched from Canon for my professional work, that Olympus allows me get straight out of the camera the results that would require lots of raw file tweaking in image editor with others. Fuji is great too, but Olympus really has been on the leading point. And when PEN-F came out, the usual "JPEG is trash, that front knob is useless for raw shooters!" and they just don't get it, you don't need raw! You shoot JPEG and you just need to do very minor adjustments that are already in limits of the JPEG itself! It is great to see that Panasonic got there now too, as nothing is better than photographers getting a easier and more efficient tools for their needs... After years using Canon 5D and 1D, the Olympus EVF was full restart to whole photography. It was like being a kid again in a darkroom, first time seeing your photograph to be visible on the negative and then appear on the print in the darkroom.... And that partially is glowing from the Joe Edelman, that same spiritual happiness and joy from using a gear that makes him enjoy more from the work he does... He is a true amateur! (Amateur means "for the love of something" and not at all negative mean "not professiona" as "Professional" only gets paid from doing something, while Amateur loves to do something. One can be professional and amateur same time). Let me quote the Henri Cartier Bresson: “25 years have passed since I started to look through my view-finder. But I regard myself still as an amateur, though I am still no longer a dilettante.”
Hi I just found your channel and I love it :D At last I have found a photographer that really understands his craft and has a true passion for it and who is prepared to share their knowledge :D I was wondering if you actually tried the video setting out on this camera ? If so did you like it ? I currently use a sony hd camcorder for my video work and occasionally use my Olympus pen f but this little camera looks like it would be easier to carry around on my wanders . Thanks for posting this I really enjoyed it and am going to watch some more of your videos over the coming weeks :D Teddy I mostly shoot in jpeg on my Pen F it makes me work harder to get it right in camera :D I occasionally shoot raw. PS I also started out in photographer over here in the UK in the days of film and used a set of M.J.Langford photography books that I still have to this day !
Thank you for the very kind words Teddy Wanderer. I haven't used the E-PL9 for video on a professional level but I did do some video of my grandson while testing the camera and it performed nicely. On a professional level I would have no problem using it as a b-roll camera.
My only contention is the flip down screen being good for vlogging. Sure doing so hand held would work, but on a tripod it or selfie stick it really isn't so advantageous. Is there some patent Canon holds that prevents anyone else from producing a camera with a side flipping screen that I'm not aware of?
Great video, Joe. I just might have to have this camera! I become more and more Olympus curious each time you talk about everything their cameras have to offer.
…. Then you are doing your job very well. I never thought I'd change camera brands - but the more I learn about Olympus as you teach, the more curious I become as I consider the move to a mirrorless system.
Full respect from that to the man! I read myself all the manuals as well before I take the tool in use. Why? Because then I already know how to problem solve it or how I can apply it for my purposes. So many is disliking the Olympus menus, yet they have not even read the Olympus manuals or taken time to learn the terms and philosophies like "Sequential" instead "Drive" or "Release" instead "Mode". Olympus offers different means to do things, and it requires one needs to learn away the Canon/Nikon ways. And best thing with Olympus is, that their menus and philosophy is same with very minor new features like E-PL9 and E-M10 III brought.
@@theJoeEdelman For me it´s not a problem to shoot JPEGs, I`m a dinosaur from the old film days, so I`ve learnd not to rely on any postprocessing to much to get the images I want.
I watched this video with my jaw dropped! The amazing images you captured with that little camera in jpeg have vibrant colors, sharp focus, and a good depth of field that had the subjects pop out as the main focus of the photos. So much WOW for such a little camera!!!
I shoot JPG out of my PEN-F quite frequently, and enjoy the process. I especially love the settings and “filters” available for out-of-the-camera black and white shooting. It’s just a lot of fun to spend time on only photography enjoying the camera and the process and coming home to images which are cooked to order in the camera.
My other Olympus camera is an E-M1 II, which I use for most of my other photography, shooting RAW with all the usual post processing. So also by no means arguing against RAW.
Thanks, Joe, for all the great educational content. Been enjoying this channel since well before your switch to M43.
they should have had you shoot it with the 14-42 kit lens. then they could also say photos shot with the boxed kit same as the girls are shooting with.
Agree
saw u at the NYC camera show yesterday. i was impressed with the images coming off the OMD. they looked real good on the big screens.
the model, tiffany, was the most impressive human female i have ever seen. thanks for giving a black model a shot.
I really like how you outline the expectations of what the client would be getting.
It is always fun and an inspiration to watch your videos. You are bringing back fun and motivation to me to take my camera (Pen-F) and shot. Thank you Joe.
Thank you Andreas Becker! I really appreciate the kind words!
I put a thumb up, but i cannot think this video is kinda of publicity for the pen. I respect Joe because i know photography and he is coherent about he said about the camera. Sorry but that how i feel!
Interesting video! Nice to see what an E-PL9 is capable of in skilled hands.
I've been really happy with my E-PL7 since I bought it a couple of years ago. Like you say, these bodies are very capable and pack a lot of functionality! The only thing that really made me want to step up to my E-M5 MkII was the limited physical controls on the body of the E-PL7, but I still use it a lot and the tilting screen on the E-PL7 fits my most common types of shooting better than the flippy screen of the E-M5. In fact, I think some of my favorite photos were captured on the E-PL7.
I'm curious about the ISO range you mentioned. My Olympus cameras have a base ISO of 200, and unfortunately the Auto ISO cannot go below 200. I'm guessing the Auto ISO in the E-PL9 has been updated to allow to go down to the Low settings as well. I've seen it mentioned somewhere (maybe a Northrup video?) that this limits the total dynamic range captured? What's your experience of this?
I appreciated the shoot planning aspects in the video, definitely something I need to think about more for my shoots!
Always enjoy your videos, as well as learning from them! I use a E-P3 as a 3rd body to my two matching OM-D EM-1 mk1's. Many times I use it for recording my setups and sometimes I use it for a second body. Great video... This was very interesting... I liked the way you incorporated the images from the day while you spoke. Thanks
Thank you davemil716! I appreciate the kind words and support!
Another brilliant video. Thanks so much for you help.
You're very welcome David Harrison! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Love your videos !!!! The best mentor !!!!!
Thank you Vanessa Cardona! I appreciate the kind words and support!
A great camera but I'm just a little baffled why Olympus decided to stop you being able to use an external mic for video as you could with previous Pen cameras. I really enjoyed this video btw :)
Thank you Going Down The Pub! I"m not sure, but I am confident that they have their reasons.
I could tell these were all shot in jpegs with the terrible dynamic range. jk. They look great. I shoot raw and jpeg for backup. Lately I've been posting the jpegs on my instagram/fb and not wasting my time editing the raw files. As long as your not under/over exposing by 10 stops or doing crazy retouches, jpegs are fine. I think some people just over react with the sound of shooting jpegs.
I believe that you are the finest and most motivating TH-cam photographer. By far, I must say. It would take too long to explain why and I am writing just to say thank you. I have learned more in the last 3 - 4 months that I watch your videos than in years listening to other you tubers. So, many many thanks for your tutorials.
You're very welcome Gianluigi Paghi! Thank you so much for the kind words and I am sincerely thrilled that you are finding them helpful. Many more to come!
And for the record, them jpegs are astonishing.
@@theJoeEdelman got me out shooting again,practice makes perfect and love your intuitive methods 5 stars
Mr. Edelman, please tell Olympus to enable 1:1 aspect ratio image capture. Ebay requires 1:1 images and the PEN EPL9 doesnt allow you to capture that size.
Olympus OM-D E-M10 III is the better camera, or should I say the most convenient camera with the 17mm f/1.8 and 12-40mm f/2.8 lenses. The whole kit today will be under $2K. Considering that not everyone need E-M1***, it's enough for in-studio and day-light shooting.
That is a ridiculous statement Owl Polar and just your opinion. The EM10 Mark III is an awesome camera, but that doesn't make it best or right for everyone. The E-PL9 is a great camera with incredible features that is preferred by many. At no point in my video did I say it was best, or that YOU should purchase it.
Those are some really lovely colors!!! I am a Fujifilm user and enjoy their JPEGS, but I am very pleased with the images coming from that Olympus! Thanks for sharing Joe!
You're very welcome LeVar Ferrell! Thank you so much for the kind words!
I shot RAW + JPEG myself but have quit doing post-processing .. So boring to spend hours adding artificially some blue tones on a sky or what I call « dramatic clouds à la Lightroom »
Time best spent shooting outdoors or at events and enjoying life & photography
Post-processing is boring and time-wasting
GallicGarlic Why shoot RAW, then, out of curiosity?
I really like Olympus JPEG, I've been shooting Olympus since 4/3 DSLR until now I use OMD. Just sold my EPL1 a month ago, thinking of getting another Pen later :)
I've always been of the opinion that you have to shoot RAW but things have changed quite a bit since I started shooting digital with my old Nikon D70. I really like Olympus JPEG rendering especially in the PEN-F and sometimes get better or just as good results with JPEG for certain types of photography. There is also something really satisfying about producing a great image right out of camera.
Awesome William Rees! Thanks for commenting!
Is that an Olympus tattoo on your right arm?
It sure is Bertziethegreat - thanks for noticing!
Wow are you fan boy or what!
@@Fast58Eddie wow amazing.
You are just brilliant Joe. Always showing that skill beat tech. Even though that is a cracking little camera.
Thank you Scott Williams Photography! The E-PL9 is indeed "cracking" - especially with that denim blue color. Of course some folks will think that it is barmy to shoot with such a small camera - but it is great to know that I can take that camera out and do big camera shots - when I don't want to carry the big cameras! Cheers!
I won’t give up my EM1 MK II either but I will definitely try that Olympus Pen jpeg and auto iso settings. thanks for this tutorial 👍🏻✅
Most of the time I shoot RAW+JPEG on my Olympus cameras and lately I am working only with the JPEGs cause them are coming great. On the past weeks I were on a 20 days vacations with my wife thru Mexico and took with me the PEN-F with some lenses. Most of the time I was shooting Aperture Priority and the Exposure Compesation wheel made my life so easy. I shoot mostly on JPEG only and so happy with the results. For post processing I am using Snapseed, its an amazing app and let you create presets. Your videos are amazing, keep it up as always!
Different than a TOG chat and appreciated. A good quick review of an overlooked camera, and one that can really help a lot of people, if they get past all the marketing fluff stating they need more and bigger and badder devices. Nice to see you limit and confine to JPG and Auto-ISO and such too. Not even sure you needed to even use the 12-100... and the best to both of the Instagrammers.
I’d like to have seen how you got on with the kit ‘pancake’ lens & have your opinion on that.
I have 4 Olympus cameras. I brought my first E-PL2 because having the option of an EVF (of cause I brought the EVF also). EVF is important to me and I ask Olympus what they think to make a camera without viewfinder or an option for an add on one?
Great video Joe, love all the curve balls you thru us in this video. Wow Joe shots Jpeg 😁 that's why we love you, you always keep us on our toes..
Thank you Mike Osinski! I appreciate the kind words and support!
The Olympus Jpegs are very nice. I shoot RAW to one card and jpeg to the other so I can transfer to my phone easily etc.. I would have no problem givin my clients the jpegs if I needed to do so.
I was considering to buy an E-PL9 as a travel camera, I like it a lot, but in the end I bought a Panasonic Lumix GX850 at half the price of the Olympus in Amazon Spain. To be fair I still think the E-PL9 is a superior camera (not by much) but for the price the Panasonic was a no brainer. Of course it's not my main camera, I own a G7 that gives me more flexibility and better ergonomics and controls. One question about your assignment, at first glance the lens/camera combinations that you use feels a little unbalance, did you noticed it or limited you in any way?
I'm trying to find pl7 used under 150 to get the best value camera with ibis and focus peaking for old manual lenses usage ;)
Great video, Joe. I am a big fan of you and watch every video you post here. Frankly speaking, because of your videos I have been highly motivated to do my best in my works. Love 💕 you from 🇮🇳 India.
What I like most in this video and in Joe, is that he is willing to break the myths about the sensor size and straight talks about the things that matters, the photographer skills to understand the light, subject and theme, and then understand the camera features. The sensor size doesn't matter at all compared what does example MySets (Custom Set now) and camera having interchangeable lenses so one can build a different kind setups to match the need, like in this case use 12-100mm f/4 with a E-PL9!
Personally I have one drawback that Olympus made with E-PL8 and newer, they removed the AP2 (accessory port 2) from hotshoe so one can't anymore attach a external viewfinder like VF-4. I use even today every day a E-P5 with 14-42EZ with VF-2 (because it is round and smaller compared to VF-4) that hangs from my belt. Every time I need to take a photo, I can just lift the camera from the belt, turn it On and even adjust its focal length and shoot, all with one hand. Thanks to two dials, VF-2 and Electronic Zoom.
And that makes me now consider, that do I buy in three days time a PEN-F or E-M1 II. My E-M1 mechanical shutter is dying in cold weather (gets stuck, and only good thump on it will release it) and I need that weather sealing sometimes and 60 FPS would really come handy. But then again PEN-F would likely be more often useful with its color creator dial (as I like to shoot JPEG+raw as I mostly only need to use JPEG and not touch raw almost ever), but I am so teared up for which one to get first now.
I just acquired the original E-M5, and I just love that camera. It was instant buy just for the fun and as an "collector item" as that is the first OM-D that started the m4/3 system raise in the image quality to top dogs. PEN-F is as well a collectors item, but E-M1 is more of a workhorse, but I so love doing black and white and PEN-F is so calling me thats why. It would cost just 999€ with the 25mm f/1.8 lens anyways...
This is so terrible, Olympus creates so many amazing bodies and lenses that it is difficult not to go wrong with any of them!
I want to see Joe's experience with the PEN-F in B/W mode on lifestyle photographs!
Hi Joe, long time no hear. Fabtabulous approach and you did all the right things. I shot my E-PM2 as my main camera for nearly two years, and added an EVF-2 viewfinder only in the later months. The PEN are very full featured. Love what you did with the visual essay as well
Thank you Ananda Sim! I appreciate the kind words and support!
On my recent family trip to Disney I left my Leica M240 and 5D IV at home and took the Panasonic G9 with the pana-leica 12-60. I shot everything on jpeg except a few landscape shots I wanted to edit later. The new jpeg engine on the G9 is so good I can finally shoot jpeg and save time in front of the pc. It even beats my all time fav jpeg engine, the Fuji.
Awesome DarkRami! Thanks for commenting!
And think about this, Olympus has had that top JPEG engine for a decade now... Panasonic only has got close to it with G9!
So many Canon, Nikon and Pentax users has been hardcore raw shooters only because their JPEG engines are really trash compared what Olympus has been doing.
That is one of the reasons why I chose Olympus over Fuji and Panasonic when I switched from Canon for my professional work, that Olympus allows me get straight out of the camera the results that would require lots of raw file tweaking in image editor with others. Fuji is great too, but Olympus really has been on the leading point. And when PEN-F came out, the usual "JPEG is trash, that front knob is useless for raw shooters!" and they just don't get it, you don't need raw! You shoot JPEG and you just need to do very minor adjustments that are already in limits of the JPEG itself!
It is great to see that Panasonic got there now too, as nothing is better than photographers getting a easier and more efficient tools for their needs...
After years using Canon 5D and 1D, the Olympus EVF was full restart to whole photography. It was like being a kid again in a darkroom, first time seeing your photograph to be visible on the negative and then appear on the print in the darkroom....
And that partially is glowing from the Joe Edelman, that same spiritual happiness and joy from using a gear that makes him enjoy more from the work he does... He is a true amateur! (Amateur means "for the love of something" and not at all negative mean "not professiona" as "Professional" only gets paid from doing something, while Amateur loves to do something. One can be professional and amateur same time). Let me quote the Henri Cartier Bresson:
“25 years have passed since I started to look through my view-finder. But I regard myself still as an amateur, though I am still no longer a dilettante.”
Hi I just found your channel and I love it :D At last I have found a photographer that really understands his craft and has a true passion for it and who is prepared to share their knowledge :D I was wondering if you actually tried the video setting out on this camera ? If so did you like it ? I currently use a sony hd camcorder for my video work and occasionally use my Olympus pen f but this little camera looks like it would be easier to carry around on my wanders . Thanks for posting this I really enjoyed it and am going to watch some more of your videos over the coming weeks :D Teddy
I mostly shoot in jpeg on my Pen F it makes me work harder to get it right in camera :D I occasionally shoot raw.
PS I also started out in photographer over here in the UK in the days of film and used a set of M.J.Langford photography books that I still have to this day !
Thank you for the very kind words Teddy Wanderer. I haven't used the E-PL9 for video on a professional level but I did do some video of my grandson while testing the camera and it performed nicely. On a professional level I would have no problem using it as a b-roll camera.
Thank you very much for responding to my ? I would only be using it on a personal level and for b roll on my youtube so that sounds good thank you :D
My only contention is the flip down screen being good for vlogging. Sure doing so hand held would work, but on a tripod it or selfie stick it really isn't so advantageous. Is there some patent Canon holds that prevents anyone else from producing a camera with a side flipping screen that I'm not aware of?
Nikon, Fuji, and Panasonic all have flip out screens.
Except for the original Olympus OMD-EM5 and the EM10 series, the OMD range has flip out screens.
Great video, Joe. I just might have to have this camera! I become more and more Olympus curious each time you talk about everything their cameras have to offer.
LOL Lynn Barsigian - if you are "Olympus Curious" then I am doing my job well.
…. Then you are doing your job very well. I never thought I'd change camera brands - but the more I learn about Olympus as you teach, the more curious I become as I consider the move to a mirrorless system.
Finally a Joe Edelman video! Always a pleasure Joe :)
Really great jpgs! Jared is rolling in his grave...
Albert Yang It just shows if your camera is set up right jpegs can look amazing .
I enjoyed the behind the scenes of the photoshoot aspect of the video. Great video Joe!
Thank you Mario Duran! I appreciate the comment.
Did you limit the Auto ISO at all?
Joe read the instruction manual, yes he did ;-)
Heck yeah Marcel Barriel!
Full respect from that to the man!
I read myself all the manuals as well before I take the tool in use. Why? Because then I already know how to problem solve it or how I can apply it for my purposes.
So many is disliking the Olympus menus, yet they have not even read the Olympus manuals or taken time to learn the terms and philosophies like "Sequential" instead "Drive" or "Release" instead "Mode".
Olympus offers different means to do things, and it requires one needs to learn away the Canon/Nikon ways. And best thing with Olympus is, that their menus and philosophy is same with very minor new features like E-PL9 and E-M10 III brought.
You made me regret buying the Em1 ii while I could go with EPL... Just kidding😁
LOL - definitely don't regret that choice Maz but that E-PL9 could make a pretty good backup camera.
Shooting JPEG is kinda like shooting film. You are forced to really get the shot right and commit.
Agreed Stephen Post! Thank you for commenting!
@@theJoeEdelman For me it´s not a problem to shoot JPEGs, I`m a dinosaur from the old film days, so I`ve learnd not to rely on any postprocessing to much to get the images I want.
I watched this video with my jaw dropped! The amazing images you captured with that little camera in jpeg have vibrant colors, sharp focus, and a good depth of field that had the subjects pop out as the main focus of the photos. So much WOW for such a little camera!!!
Agreed Ajax Rodriguez - it is a very powerful piece of kit in a very small package!
Thank you, Joe!
You're welcome runbei I appreciate the comment!
Great video. Thanks.
You're welcome Bob Klarquist I appreciate the comment!
Great video but why did you not take your Godox AD200 with you
LOL martin bowra - it was all about shooting light and since the girls aren't going to be using lighting - I didn't use lighting.